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This doesn’t require much explanation, but I’m afraid I’m guilty of several of these.

11 Bad Reasons For Not Liking Something:

1. It’s too subversive.
2. It didn’t come from me.
3. It isn’t what I expected.
4. People I dislike like it.
5. It isn’t rebellious enough.
6. It’s not the best of its kind.
7. Too few people already like it.
8. Too many people already like it.
9. It reminds me of what I can’t do.
10. It’s goodness makes me feel guilty.
11. It reminds me of something I once did.

We’ve all been in the position where we find ourselves in a conversation (at work, church or at home), thinking “He keeps saying that. I wonder why.”

The answer may lie within this list.

11 Possible Messages Given By The Person Who Repeats Him/Herself

1. I want to sound like I have content, but have nothing else to add.
2. I’m proud of this truth.
3. This is the most important point I have.
4. I don’t think I’m getting through.
5. I just like saying these words.
6. This truth is the only evidence I have to what I’m trying to say.
7. I’ve honestly forgotten that I’ve already mentioned this to you four times.
8. There have been times when I thought you understood, but you didn’t. I’m trying to make sure that doesn’t happen again.
9. I’m hoping this time it will sound like I’m saying it a different way.
10. I don’t feel like being creative in this conversation right now.
11. I’m waiting for you to respond in a certain way, but you haven’t done it yet.

It may behoove you to figure out which of the eleven is the cause behind the repetition.

1. It includes a simply told, but not simplistic account of the last 25 years in global economic history.

2. If you know nothing about economics (which I didn’t), the Glossary alone is worth the price of the book.

4. If you do not know nothing about economics, this book has a good primer on Austrian Economic Theory – which you may have never heard of, but probably should acquaint yourself with.

3. Are you thinking that nothing can stop our economic prospects from getting better? This book is a study on why you may be wrong.

5. If you ever found yourself wishing to read an epic poem that was an apocalyptic parable about the modern economic situation, this book is the place.

6. Absolutely no nearly-unclad women on the cover, unlike other books I could mention.

7. Also, no plugs for Open Theism. (Or maybe I missed them?)

8. The Author was wisely willing to consider that his thesis (We are only in the beginning of a new Great Depression) is wrong and posted several potential statistics that would be evidence of his error.

9. For one Brief and Shining Moment it was the Number 1 ‘Mover and Shaker” over at Amazon.

10. Can you find the Bill Murray Reference?

11. You want to have the complete Vox Day / Theo Beale Collection, don’t you? Quick Trivia Question: Which book could Jamsco not find in time to include in this photo?

Abram’s age at the Covenant of Circumcision Genesis 17:1
Sheep left by the good shepherd to find the lost one Matthew 18:12
Number of righteous persons who need no repentance who cause less joy in Heaven than one sinner who repents! Matthew 18:13

1. My beloved wife can bike 11 miles on the hilly Superior Gitchi Gami Trail to no ill effect.

2. If you’re choosing between biking from Gooseberry to Split Rock State park or the other way around choose Gooseberry to Split Rock. You’ll get more downhill time.

3. Even after multiple times of being in a favorite state park, you can still find excellent areas that are easy to get to.

4. Banning State park on the way up to Duluth is right off the highway and it is one of the better state parks. We recommend it.

5. It’s great to be leaving a vacation spot on Labor Day Friday as everyone is arriving.

6. My wife and I don’t get sick of talking to each other.

7. A pleasant thing to do on an anniversary trip is to read your journal entry from the days just before, on and after your wedding day.

8. So it’s good I wrote it all down 15 years ago.

9. You can miss your kids and be glad that you don’t have them with you at the same time.

10. I never get sick of being near Lake Superior. I find myself feeling bad for those people who don’t live near enough to it to reasonably vacation there. Okay, assuming they don’t live near an ocean.

11. The Wild Rice Porridge at the Vanilla Bean Café in Two Harbors is awesome. Try it.

* You might be wondering why I don’t say something like “I have a wonderful wife” or “God has greatly blessed me.” Yeah, like I didn’t know that before.

– If you’re lighting a flair for the lake association’s traditional lake-wide flair lighting event, light it away from your sandled foot or you might get burning wax on your foot that will stick and cause a unique looking burn spot that hurts when you wear shoes.

– One time that it’s not great to have a lot of kids is when you’re packing for a long weekend.

– One time that it’s great to have a lot of kids is when they have great fun by themselves while swimming.

– You will continue to feel guilty every time you don’t swim with your kids.

– Finding the official geocache hidden at Wild River State Park takes about 1 ¼ hours and is about 1 ½ mile hike.

– There is more joy doing things with your kids if they are able to take leadership roles.

– Judging by the extremely impressive fireworks all the way around the lake, the economic downturn has not hit cabin owners in the Grantsburg, WI area.

– Even though they are only one fiftieth as cool as the other fireworks (which almost certainly cost hundreds of dollars, it’s still cool to light off your own $2.50 set of roman candles.

– Other pastors have good sermons based on the book of John.

– There is an interesting link between the Declaration of Independence and Declaration of Righteousness on the saved soul. See George Washington’s letter written July 3, 1776.

– Finding the official geocache at Interstate State Park takes about ten minutes and you don’t need a GPS if you talk to the right person there.

In June of 2005, well before I had a blog, I wrote, and Vox posted the “Three reasons why Vox should see Star Wars Episode 3.”

Now I have this to say (warning – some of the links have spoilers):

11 Reasons Why Vox Should Go See Star Trek 11*

1. His reason for not liking Star Trek – Next Generation is, well let’s face it, it’s lame. Something like “I watched one episode of it and it was a ton like this other science fiction book I read once, so I said “No way!” and I never watched any other Star Trek again.”

Isn’t that like reading one chapter of, say, a book against Atheism and critiquing it on only that?

As for his given reason for not liking Trek as a whole (the “smug incoherence of a saga about a warship charged with peacefully enforcing the supremacy of its “tolerant” culture at laser point”) Well, I can only assume he got that from other people. Vox, can you ask them to show us an episode where this actually happens?

In any case, I thought Vox didn’t care about the background message in fiction?

I suspect Vox “doesn’t fully understand that a writer’s basic objective in writing a television show seldom involves the idea of presenting an argument to the viewer”

She was greatly entertained, while watching this movie, at seeing how the new actors were successful at taking the mannerisms of the original actors. It’s really rather clever in showing how the characters meet and become friends.

10. Speaking of which, knowing that Vox liked the LOTR movies, I should point out that this one has Eomer. I enjoyed every scene with Bones in it.

11. I’m like Vox in that I don’t see many movies in the theatre. Babysitting costs us $40+. Still, I’m tempted to see this one in the theatre again. It is an excellent movie. Good action, good humor. Men making sacrifices are honored. I recommend it.

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Back in ’05, Vox found my documentation ‘compelling’ and himself ‘wavering’, but nevertheless (as far as I know) never saw Ep 3. Perhaps this time I’ll be more successful.

What say you, Vox?

* One of the things I promised Vox when I first started this blog is that I would stand up for Star Trek. It’s high time I lived up to it.